| ▲ | mastazi 5 hours ago | |
People who are not new Linux users might prefer a distro which is part of the same "family" of distros they are already familiar with. Steam OS I believe is based on Arch. Bazzite is based on Fedora. Personally I have experience with Debian distros so if I wanted a gaming-focused distro I would pick maybe something like Pop OS. | ||
| ▲ | Gigachad an hour ago | parent | next [-] | |
I have both a steamdeck on SteamOS and a pc on Bazzite and they both work exactly the same. They both run literally the same steam UI and both run flawlessly so I couldn’t even tell you which one I’m using if you just showed me a screen and controller. | ||
| ▲ | d3Xt3r 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Pop!_OS isn't good for gaming thanks to being quite behind in package versions. You're better off going with a dedicated gaming distro (which offers recent packages) such as PikaOS if you want a Debian base. | ||
| ▲ | Forgeties79 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
I tried Pop before Bazzite on my PC back in April and maybe I’m just bad at Linux, but it was a pain in the ass for gaming at first boot. Bazzite ran Expedition 33 out the box. Didn’t have to download drivers, didn’t have to configure anything, it just worked. There are limitations but if you want a gaming machine, bazzite is a no-brainer to me. Poo is very impressive but I just don’t want to fight my OS constantly when it comes to gaming. | ||